Why Plone

Plone is mature and solid yet flexible and open.

Beside its strong technical foundation, it is content-centric and user-centric: its focus is to provide value at every level of an organization.

Plone content publishing and creation system is fast and easy to handle, while its powerful and complete workflow engine leads to optimal performances when managing collaborative tasks.

Plone comes out with a default set of content types that is always extensible and and has a built-in search sistem that allows full text indexing on almost every document format; it is highly standard compliant: it meets or exceeds W3C's WAI-AA standards for usability and accessibility and has an advanced multilingual support.

Plone is built on top of the Zope application server: this implies a robust and flexible role-based security model which allows to have full control over system accessess at every level and allows to manage specific permissions on tools and contents.

Plone basic features can be multiplied using add-on products or writing custom extensions; the overall use of Python programming language improves customization processes allowing to make even notable modifications comfortably.

Plone Development

There are many developers, writers and testers from all over the world, contributing to Plone everyday. Plone development community is mature and active and it is organized in development teams. Plone benefits from contributions of independent coders as well as Plone professionals and companies, like Reflab, that keep on releasing their software with open licenses.
Plone releases follow a development roadmap that is always available on the official website.

Plone Case Studies

Plone is widely appreciated and used in organizations, public administrations and corporate environments. We deploy Plone systems for medium / big enterprises and organization, mostly building  complex sites and custom projects. Some noticeable Plone realization can be found in our Customers section: from Web Implementation, to CMS solutions, to Partnership Projects.

Due to his Open Source nature Plone is suitable for big and smallest  productions; for a wider view of Plone success stories and providers you can visit the repository site of Plone providers, plone.net, the  plone.org listing or even use the social bookmarking service del.icio.us. and search by the plone-site tag.